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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Conflicting Info
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:29:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: <44199769.2010806@verizon.net>


On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:50:49 -0500, bob gillis wrote:
>
> Wayne Colton wrote:
>
>> Hello All, I know I have read here some time ago to
>> enter information as it is found. But after thinking
>> about this Im wondering were does the false info end. I
>> have a child who according to the death records for
>> Ontario died July 10th 1900. However she appears on the
>> census records in April of 1901. Your comments or
>> suggestions are appreciated,
>>
>
> This is where sureties work well.

Sorry, Bob, but I don't believe sureties work at all for this purpose
- because there is no practical way to output them. Thus readers have
no way of knowing what was going on in your evaluation, especially not
if you use them to exclude the "wrong" information. It's much better,
in my view, to record them in a way that will appear in output, as I
suggested in another response to this thread.

Terry Reigel


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